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Encyclopedia > CrossOver Office
Crossover Office running Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word 2000

In computing, CrossOver Office is a commercial program allowing you to run popular Windows applications on a Linux system without a Windows installation. It is a snapshot of the public WINE source tree, with various compatibility patches added, and more user-friendly configuration tools. Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 313 KB)A screenshot of Crossover Office running Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word; taken by me This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 313 KB)A screenshot of Crossover Office running Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word; taken by me This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a computer was a person who computes. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ... Application has the following meanings: In general, an application is using something general to some more conrete. ... Tux, a lovable and cuddly penguin sitting down after having gorged itself on herring, is the official Linux mascot. ... A glass of white wine This article is about the beverage. ... In computing, a patch is a software update meant to fix problems with a computer program. ... For the concept in software engineering, see user-friendliness. ... In communications or computer systems, a configuration is an arrangement of functional units according to their nature, number, and chief characteristics. ...


Crossover Office is produced by CodeWeavers, who employ several WINE developers and contribute code back to the open source WINE project as per the GNU LGPL. CodeWeavers is a company that sells a proprietary fork of WINE called CrossOver Office, for running Windows applications on Linux. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa GNU is a recursive acronym for GNUs Not Unix. The GNU project was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman with the goal of creating a complete operating system -- called the GNU system or simply GNU -- that is free software, meaning that users... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ...


The actively-supported applications are Microsoft Office XP, 2000 and 97, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft Access 2000, Microsoft Visio 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes and Quicken. The program also aims to integrate properly with GNOME and KDE. Microsoft Office is a series of suites of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. ... Screenshot of Outlook 2003 Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager and email client program from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ... Microsoft Access is a relational database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the Jet relational database engine with a graphical interface intended to make it possible for relatively unskilled programmers and non-programmer power users to build front ends to databases. ... Visio was a software company in Seattle, Washington. ... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a web browser made by Microsoft and currently available as part of Microsoft Windows. ... Macromedia Logo Macromedia Logo used from 1997-2001 Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) is a graphics and web development software house. ... Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web design software application developed by Macromedia. ... Macromedia Flash or Flash refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Macromedia Flash Player, written and distributed by Macromedia, that utilizes vector and bitmap graphics, sound and program code and bidirectional streaming video and audio. ... Adobe Systems ( NASDAQ: ADBE) is a computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. ... Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) published by Adobe Systems. ... IBM Lotus Notes 6. ... Intuit Logo Intuit, Inc. ... Lawn Gnome A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by small stature and living underground. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...


External links

  • CrossOver Office home page (http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/)

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CrossOver Office 5.0 | Linux Journal (1346 words)
CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office 5.0 is a commercial application based on Wine that allows you to run many popular Microsoft Windows-based office and productivity applications under Linux, as well as a few multimedia and Internet applications.
CrossOver Office is distributed as a large bourne shell script.
CrossOver Office gave us excellent feedback, letting us know what it was doing at each stage of the process.
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